Ok, if you really want to keep going on this!randy331 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:32 pmIf you don't believe in misleading people,.. then I'd stop throwing around $20,000. And certainly $50,000-$75,000 price tag.GARY C wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:57 pm True but in the context of why this question was asked $20,000.00 is still $20,000.00 regardless of how you divide it and time is money even if you get machine work and dyno time for free (some don't) and your left with what you can re coupe for the used engine or engines in some cases if you don't win the big prize money and this would only get more costly if your goal was to beat everyone in the competition.
I agree that money alone will not win this but you and I both know how much is spent to get to the winners circle.
I am not discounting what you guys have accomplished I just don't believe in mis leading people to think something other than the truth!
In reality Rick, me, Chad, and Joe threw our time in for free. No doubt we all could have made money instead. But cost on parts, Joe may come out ahead on that. He runs a race engine shop. Race parts lay around in his shop everywhere there. There's always a use for lightly used parts.
Travel, motel, dining etc, it all cost money. I went to Alaska a few years back. It was fun and I enjoyed it for sure,... but Alaska is very lacking in engine talk, and they didn't give me a trophy. I drove out to the drag strip, but it was closed.
Went up to a circle track, closed too.
Lots of salmon fishing talk. Talk of bears. Whale talk. No TQ/cubes talk anywhere.
But Alaska wasn't free either. But I did get a nice ride in a Cessna Caravan up the coast. That was cool,..but I don't think it gained us any EMC points.
Depends on what you want to spend your time and money on.
Randy
My question... CONTEXT!
"Rick, could you share with us the total cost of the "sets" of heads, all the cams, lifters, "intakes," "carbs" 100's of hours of dyno time of "both" engines plus all the misc and travel cost to get to a winning engine if a guy like me without the free access of above mentioned stuff was going to try to enter next years competition?"
I challenge you to post all cost from day one it would have cost "me" to do what you did! Or even just the total dollars it cost you guys for everything, not just the one engine you ended up with, I may be dumb but I can work a calculator and I know what it cost to build "1" engine!
As you said flying cost money...Just because you got a free ride doesn't mean someone didn't have to pay for it!
EDIT! I never said $50,000.00 to $75,000.00 but if you think he is wrong I urge you to talk to Jon, Tony or the owner of SAM and see what they say about what guys have spent in the past to win the top prize! I can promise you that # was not pulled out of thin air!